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Post by brigham on Oct 13, 2023 7:24:00 GMT
C for the odd one out. It doesn't contain the famous roundel.
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Post by brigham on Oct 12, 2023 7:18:48 GMT
Inset could be Thorpe.
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Post by brigham on Oct 9, 2023 8:49:16 GMT
Bit of a blow, that.
What a short-sighted idea, building an important new route to and from Birmingham, and scrapping the final bit into London.
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Post by brigham on Oct 9, 2023 8:38:39 GMT
Difficult to answer without knowing the current level of service. The 'essential-ness' is proportional to the enhancement.
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Post by brigham on Sept 28, 2023 7:53:23 GMT
I imagine that level of flexibility will have been rationalised-out by now.
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Post by brigham on Sept 27, 2023 15:30:35 GMT
Sufficient training and no experience.
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Post by brigham on Sept 27, 2023 7:33:32 GMT
I would think that the 'outsourcing' of safety training has been a factor. Why have a highly trained specialist workforce, when you can just stop the trains and use contractors?
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Post by brigham on Sept 22, 2023 7:37:15 GMT
Winchester Cathedral.
We know a song about that...
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Post by brigham on Sept 21, 2023 7:32:30 GMT
What will the swimming pool roads do?
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Post by brigham on Sept 19, 2023 17:54:11 GMT
A lot of extra work, seemingly to enable cross-platform interchange between the hi-tech 'London's Newest Tube', and the quiet backwater of the GN & City?
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Post by brigham on Sept 15, 2023 7:56:48 GMT
It's the first time since I joined DD's that I've SAVED a quiz picture.
It's breathtakingly surreal. Reminds me of that staircase in Carousel.
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Post by brigham on Sept 15, 2023 7:30:09 GMT
The ticks?
Wrong thread, or am I missing something?
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Post by brigham on Sept 14, 2023 7:33:34 GMT
...or Colne.
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Post by brigham on Sept 9, 2023 7:18:33 GMT
Air conditioning?
For the trains, or for the tunnels?
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Post by brigham on Sept 8, 2023 7:31:40 GMT
I've always thought that the battery locos look diminutive. It's probably because they are more often seen coupled to surface-gauge stock, where they have a definite 'Hayling Island' look.
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Post by brigham on Sept 7, 2023 7:40:25 GMT
Is B the Tidal Basin Tavern?
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Post by brigham on Sept 1, 2023 7:32:17 GMT
C. looks like White City.
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Post by brigham on Aug 31, 2023 7:38:01 GMT
Do they still have coin-operated public conveniences? I haven't 'spent a penny' in years!
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Post by brigham on Aug 31, 2023 7:27:11 GMT
Staffing and training have been 'rationalised'.
A 'rationalised' service is now running.
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Post by brigham on Aug 23, 2023 7:35:02 GMT
Tell me again the benefit of NOT being able to buy a ticket at a station. Oh! I remember. You can sack someone...
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Post by brigham on Aug 19, 2023 7:33:11 GMT
Would that be a Cammell-Laird built car, then, the one with the split doorway?
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Post by brigham on Aug 15, 2023 7:54:45 GMT
What an embarrassment. I mistook a power station for Harrods.
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Post by brigham on Aug 9, 2023 7:54:23 GMT
Or you could turn it into a beach hut, with enthusiasts trying to dig it out in the rain...
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Post by brigham on Aug 9, 2023 7:50:22 GMT
Reminds me of the Princess Alice in Middlesbrough.
There was a round patch in the nicotine above the bar, where a clock had been.
It was marked 'No Tick'.
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Post by brigham on Aug 3, 2023 7:53:19 GMT
I'm not personally against traction-voltage bus lines and jumpers. I just had the impression that LU was.
Dennistoun Burney became famous for complicated solutions to basic engineering problems, such as placing the clutch and gearbox at opposite sides of the engine. He designed the famous Streamline car favoured by Edward, Prince of Wales. He worked alongside Barnes Wallis and Nevil Shute Norway on the R100 at Howden. A brilliant man, in my view.
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Post by brigham on Aug 2, 2023 7:26:56 GMT
So the traction current passes through a jumper from the shoes to the wheel-less car, through the controller, then back to the bogie car through a jumper, then through the motors?
Sir Charles Dennistoun Burney is alive and well!
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Post by brigham on Jul 28, 2023 7:38:12 GMT
You would also need to wrap that in a significant level of security to manage the “right” tracking (i.e. for fares) while not getting into the “wrong” sort (i.e. for spying on people). The mind boggles.
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Post by brigham on Jul 21, 2023 7:10:46 GMT
Thanks for the new links. The intermediate ends seem slightly reminiscent of some Tube cars of the 1920s... The entire roof profile, with its vestigal clear-story, must surely be a nod to the Standard Stock of that era. Can some computer genius paint it into the appropriate red livery?
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Post by brigham on Jul 19, 2023 7:23:22 GMT
I'd say the railway is behind the hedge on the right, and there is a station behind the camera. The single no-parking line suggests a possible weekdays-only restriction on parking, such as might be found around a commuter station in a residential area.
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Post by brigham on Jul 15, 2023 7:52:21 GMT
Nearest I got was Bat and Ball.
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